Xiomara Santacoloma Medina Santacoloma Medina itibaren Stokkseyri, İzlanda itibaren Stokkseyri, İzlanda

Loved it.

I re-read this just this month in preparation for a grad school class I'm teaching on Library Services and Programs for Children. The strength of this book, in a nutshell? It makes a children's librarian like me think about my job. What is it for? How can I (and we - as a library system, as a profession...) do it better? How can we prepare now for the libraries - and kids - of the future. This is not so much a how-to-do-it manual as a how-to-think-about-it guide. Inspiring and thought-provoking - even if the author IS my mom! (see, she managed to inspire her daughter to take up the same profession with a passion - says something about her own commitment to the field...)

While Liv Tyler and Drew Barrymore are my impossibly aspirational celebrity role models (naturally chubby gals who can really pull out all the stops for a film role, red carpet event, etc.), I think Jo Brand is my more realistic celebrity equivalent. She's a chronic procrastinator (you can always tell when I've got a deadline or, in this case, two deadlines, looming because I go through books like nobody's business), a "right fascist about spelling", and I may have found my new life credo in: "what I like best in life is reading books, preferably accompanied by a little light scoffing". So I can absolutely forgive her that this autobiography is marginally duller (and much more poorly edited - repetition a-go-go!) than her last one.